Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...targets. U.S. officers are still convinced that there simply are no easy, dramatic formulas for victory in Viet Nam. The primary effort must be to win in the south, they feel, and Khanh must drastically improve his army's fighting ability before proposing a contest with Ho Chi Minh's formidable northern battalions...
...South Viet Nam, all had been exposed to the harangues of political commissars in their home villages and joined the Communist movement before 1954. They moved to the Communist north after the Geneva partition, mostly out of sheer hero worship for the conquerors of the hated French. Former Viet Minh Infantry Captain Huynh Due That, 35, joined the Viet Minh as a civil guard when he was 20, after partition was taken to Hanoi aboard a Polish troopship. Nguyen Thao, 32, joined his local Young Communist movement even earlier, at twelve, and walked to North Viet...
...Vietnamese government to return to the south. The trip home began at a camp south of Hanoi where units of infiltrators were assembled, then driven south by automobile to within 15 miles of the border. There, they set out on foot, following the spidery footpaths of the Ho Chi Minh trail west into Laos, then southeast across the mountainous border of South Viet Nam. The march was slow-five to seven weeks. Before they crossed into Laos, the whole band changed from their Viet Minh uniforms into the khaki of the Pathet Lao, and at the South Viet Nam border...
...sections of the country-Sam-nueua and Phongsaly-bordering Communist China and North Viet Nam. The International Control Commission, made up of Polish, Indian and Canadian delegations, was theoretically responsible for keeping any faction from bringing in more troops and arms, but the Pathet Lao ignored the ban; Viet Minh cadres poured across the border to train Pathet Lao troops in guerrilla and conventional warfare. In 1957 the U.S. grew alarmed, began casting about for a rightist leader to counter the Communists. It found him in General Phoumi Nosavan, a tubby but talented field commander whose cousin, the late Strongman...
...least for U.S. air strikes to cut Route 7 behind the Pathet Lao. "If the bridges on Route 7 were cut for even a little while," he says, "the Pathet Lao could not hold their positions. That road provides everything they need-food, ammo, men, even the Viet Minh...